News of the tour comes shortly after the Vatican announced it would renew its agreement with China on the appointment of Catholic bishops in the country for another four years. The delegation ...

Catholic social doctrine is built on four ... by the People’s Republic of China. Bishop Sánchez Sorondo seems to have been much impressed by a recent tour of the PRC, noting in an interview ...

Pope Francis hopes the deal "will allow the wounds of the past to be overcome" and bring about full Catholic unity in China, the Vatican said. An eighth bishop, who died last year, was also ...

The Chinese government confirmed that it had reached a provisional agreement Tuesday on appointing bishops in the ... telling ...

The retreat was led by priest John Baptist Zhang - founder of the digital and print communication platform Xinde.org, and also responsible for Jinde Charities, the main Catholic charitable work in ...

There are currently about 100 Catholic bishops in China, with some approved by Beijing, some approved by the Vatican and, informally, many now approved by both. People praying at an underground ...

BEIJING—China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years, officials said Tuesday. The 2018 agreement ...

His teachings are currently read out in English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. Read more at ...

marking the first official visit by a Beijing bishop in history. Joseph Li, who was installed by China’s state-controlled Catholic church as an archbishop, visited the Cathedral of the ...

BEIJING (AP) — China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years, officials said Tuesday. FILE -Pope Francis ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The decision by the Vatican and China on Tuesday to extend an accord on the appointment of Catholic bishops in the communist country for four years indicates a new level of ...